THE CONTEMPORARY KIM BRIAN M.
LINA
Part-time Instructor
WORLD Department of Liberal Arts and
Behavioral Sciences
MODULE 1:
Globalization and Its Effects in the
Development of the Modern
Economy and Politics
ACTIVITY
Grab any thing in your
bag and trace where that
thing came from.
LESSON 1.1:
Introduction
to
Globalization
WHY STUDY
GLOBALIZATION?
WHY STUDY GLOBALIZATION?
1 Avoid Parochialism
2 Learn more about society
WHY STUDY GLOBALIZATION?
Broader perspective of how people
3 globally relate with each other
Globalization is inherently inter-
4 disciplinary
WHY STUDY GLOBALIZATION?
To answer the question, “Are
we global citizens? Or are we
5 in the process of becoming
“global citizens?”
GLOBALIZATION
ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS
A process of forging It centers around the
international political, world becoming
economic, religious, “smaller” and more
and socio-cultural interconnected with
interconnections. each other.
The Different Lenses in the Study
of the Nature of GLOBALIZATION
POLITICAL SCIENCE
ECONOMICS
CULTURE & COMMUNICATION
POLITICAL LENS
• Political scientist: “challenge to the nation-
state”
• Emergence of International and Multinational
corporations
• Strength to regional blocks
• Emergence of global political norms
ECONOMIC LENS
• Increased free trade
• Speed of trade (HFT) High-Frequency
Trading – milliseconds to trade shares)
• Global economic organizations (WTO)
• Multinational and Transnational Corporations
CULTURE &
COMMUNICATION LENS
• Scholar of Culture and Communication:
“globalization seems to be shrinking the
world.”
• “Global village”
• “Cultural imperialism”
Anthropological, Sociological
or
Environmental Lens
• Migration: Root cause why people have that
penchant to move from one place to another.
• The possibility for the emergence of the notion of
global citizenship.
• Questions the earth’s natural resources’ carrying
capacity in relation to the world’s ever-increasing
and complex population.
GLOBALIZATION
“Globalization refers to the
expansion and intensification of
social relations and consciousness
across world-time and world-space.”
- Manfred Steger (2014)
GLOBALIZATION
• Connectivity is very diverse
• Affected by globalization: Businesses,
the people, the government, the
culture, and even education.
• Uneven and unequal
VARIOUS FORMS OF CONNECTIVITY
Expansion & Stretching
of
Social Relations
• Presence of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs)
• Emergence of Social Media and the advancements in
communication technology
• Governments formed organizations
VARIOUS FORMS OF CONNECTIVITY
Intensification and Acceleration of
Social Exchanges and Activities
• From snail mail to
Facebook
• Live television compared
to and recordings used
• Increase travel locally and
internationally
VARIOUS FORMS OF CONNECTIVITY
Globalization’s Influence on
Subjective Consciousness
• We think about the world
• Associate with global trends
• A sense of responsibility
• Process of Globalization: Always
Uneven and Unequal – effects and
results of this connectivity
CONCLUSION
Globalization has dramatically shaped the world
even if globalization is not a new phenomenon.
Though globalization can be very much felt in the
present society, its effects and influence on a
myriad of things are not similar because
globalization is always uneven and unequal.
Answer True if the statement is true. Answer false if the statement
is false.
1. From the aspect of expansion and stretching of social
relations, globalization has also intensified and accelerated
social exchanges and activities.
2. Even if the process of globalization is very uneven and
unequal, there are significant degrees of the expansion and
stretching of social relations. For one, the presence of non-
government organizations all over the world is a
manifestation of this.
3. When one looks at the globalization's working definitions, it
cannot be denied that its various forms of connectivity are
very diverse. They are different in the sense that things
affected by globalization itself like the businesses, the people,
the government, the culture, and even education, are
connected in different ways.
4. From the aspect of expansion and stretching of social
relations, globalization has also intensified and accelerated
social exchanges and activities. A most recent phenomenon is
the emergence of Zoom and Google Meet in conducting
meetings amidst the lockdowns and border restrictions
brought about by the COVID 19 global pandemic.
5. Globalization enables students to learn more about the
society.
6. Globalization could only be studied from the lens of
economics since globalization is inherently affecting the
world through the intensification of economic activities.
7. Mega Corporations, however huge they are, cannot
surpass a single nation in relation to a nation’s Gross
Domestic Product (GDP).
8. Even with the advancement of social media platforms,
people have not started to think of the world, but remain
to only for themselves.
9. Globalization is a very new phenomenon. It only started
to spread its wings in the late 1980s when the cold war
ended.
10.The effects of globalization to the world are always the
same, may it be in rich or poor nations.
Learning Task 1
What is your
GLOBALIZATION
Story?
How does globalization affect the
way you live life?
